Donald Trump to attend Saturday’s Army-Navy game
The 117th edition of the Army-Navy football game will take place on Saturday, and president-elect Donald Trump will be in attendance.
The Army and Navy football teams will play their traditional stand-alone game this weekend, as the Black Knights try to end a 14-game losing streak to the Midshipmen. Both teams will enter the game with a winning records for the first time since 2010. Later this month, Army (6-5) will take on North Texas in the Heart of Dallas Bowl and Navy (9-3) will play Louisiana Tech in the Armed Forces Bowl.
At M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Saturday, there will be a notable guest.
Just in: Trump to attend Army-Navy game this Saturday and plans to sit half on Army side, half on Navy, per transition official.
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) December 6, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump will attend the game on Saturday, and he will embrace tradition by spending half the game seated on each team’s side of the field. Current sitting president Barack Obama attended the Army-Navy game back in 2011, and former president George W. Bush attended in 2001, 2004 and 2008.
Trump is a noted football fan, dating back at least to his time as owner of the New Jersey Generals of the USFL in the early-to-mid 1980’s. So it’s not too surprising he will attend the Army-Navy game now, even before taking the oath of office in January. Beyond that, it’s easy to think Trump will make every effort to attend the Army-Navy game each year during his presidency.
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Trump’s ongoing transition to the White House has been unique, and often openly criticized by those on the other end of the political spectrum. Hopefully his decision to go to the Army-Navy game will be seen as some semblance of a unifying event, and not the subject of that same kind of criticism.